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...play begins with a suicide and ends with a duel. There is plenty of cynical merriment in between. At the center of the drama is an elegant couple, Friedrich Hofreiter (Keith Baxter) and his wife Genia (Jennifer Harmon). He is a light bulb manufacturer with a roving eye, and she practices blind decorum as high diplomacy...
...noisy inferno at Westinghouse's lamp factory in Bloomfield, N.J., a Unimate 2015G robot performs a process called "swaging." This is somewhat like making spaghetti, but it is done with 21-in. rods of yellow tungsten, destined to become light-bulb filaments. The robot lifts them off a conveyor belt and sticks them into a blazing furnace (3,200° F), then into a swaging machine that stretches the rods until they have grown to 37 in. in length and shrunk to exactly .467 in. in diameter. Three workers, each of whom cost the company $20,000 per year...
...hand, Simmons woman in the other, and stick together, they might be picked off one by one, left to rot in nurd purgatory. So they help each other out, getting the pledges dates, reminding a careless eager beaver that he's spending too much time under the high-intensity bulb with his organic chem models, and generally by being unnaturally cheerful...
Ordinary light, whether from the sun or a 60-watt bulb, consists of a jumble of electromagnetic waves of different frequencies. But a laser-for light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation-generates a beam whose waves all have the same frequency and are perfectly synchronized so as to reinforce each other. Beams from very powerful lasers can burn through hardened steel...
Today's do-it-yourselfer is tackling bigger tasks than just changing a light bulb. He (or increasingly she) is doing complicated electrical and plumbing jobs that used to be considered hands-off for amateurs. Hardware stores report a growing market for difficult-to-install bathtubs and showers. Professional tools like a ramset, a heavy-duty stud gun that uses .22-cal. cartridges to drive nails into concrete, are enjoying wider use. Energy-conserving improvements, such as the installation of wood-burning stoves and clock-activated thermostats, are among the most popular weekend projects...